From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Warren de La Rue
Date:
[6 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.198
Summary:
Thanks for engravings of Saturn and Jupiter; would like to see an astronomical picture book produced.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 7/57.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1352, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
Thursday | 1857 May 7
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.170, RGO
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
Date:
7 May 1857
Source of text:
UB MS NS 430
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1857 May 8
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.171; MS JT/1/TYP/1/21, RGO; RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0378; Reel 1087
Summary:
Encloses report by Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd, on decimal coinage]. Will answer JH's note tomorrow.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 May [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9)
Summary:
Thanks for new part of "Statistics".
Interested in disjoined species; do they tend to belong to large or small genera, and are they generally members of small families?
Is glad AG will tackle introduced plants; has noticed that the proportion of a particular family to the whole flora tends to be similar in introduced and indigenous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
Saturday. | 1857 May 9
Source of text:
MS.RGO 6/471.172, RGO
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0379; Reel 1087
Summary:
Just now received 'blue book' on decimal coinage from printer. Forwards it to JH. Apologizes for putting this burden on JH, but TS wants to be fully aware of all issues relating to decimal coinage. Answers JH's questions about report.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 May 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 171
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.139
Summary:
Is pleased that JH approves of his drawings of the planets. Hopes to publish some drawings of the other planets in the future. Has moved his observatory but hopes soon to start observations. Unable to comment on Otto Struve's observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Arthur Freeling
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GRG 35/2/345, Surveyor General's Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frances Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2544, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Lucas Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 May 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
12 [May 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Accepts a dozen eggs of rumpless Polands. Having so many enables him to see whether the breed "comes true".
Asks what colour turbits have dark tails – "it is just the class of facts which interest me".
Do fowls when crossed throw odd and unexpected colours like pigeons?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Spring-Rice
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1857]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0380; Reel 1087
Summary:
Quotes 1682 tract by William Petty advising Marquis of Halifax to employ decimal system of currency.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
13 May [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 15
Summary:
Discusses family health and affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[15 May 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.199
Summary:
Heard ES recommended JH write an article for Edinburgh Review on terrestrial magnetism. Asks what he should read to write this article. Photographs ES sent of sun not promising.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project